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VE Day
Who: Britain was involved fighting Germany for over 6 years
What: what happened was that Britain fought Germany really hard that Germany surrendered in May, 7, 1945.
Where: VE Day took place in Britain, Europe where pretty much it was a celebration party, of Germany surrendering and a celebration of peace.
When: it took place on May, 8, 1945, where everyone started celebrating Europe victory.
Why: it happened because after 6 years of violence with Germany, Germany finally surrendered and Britai -
Atomic Bomb
Who: the United States was involved in the atomic bomb incident.
What: what happened was that the United States of America dropped atomic bombs onto Hiroshima (city of Japan) and Nagasaki another city of Japan.
Where: it took place on Japan where America was bombing Japan in the war
When: it happened on 1945, in Japan, August.
Why: it happened because Japan was allies with Germany so America needed to defeat Japan to gain control and stop Japan from conquering other countries.
What makes it a -
Pakistan Vs India
who: While coldwar was continuing my great grandfather and grandmother were seeing chaos going on while people were fighting each other.
what: was a fight between islam and hindism, many fled from india to pakistan.
where: happened in all of india
when: Aug, 15, 1947
why: people hated others so much for belif and which religon was right.
why was it a definimg moment: there was a lot of crying, figjting and moving it was heartbreaking for my grandfather to see everything that happened -
Great Great Grand father was murdered
who: My great grand father was involved
what: he went to a mosque to pray when later while he was praying a guy shoots him with a gun
where: happened in hydrabad during the 50s
when: 1950, march 31st
why: the guy who shot him was jealous of his job
why was this a defining moment: importamt necausw it tells us that before 1960s currency was high and valuble but now its low, -
The Korean War( month is unknown ) (from 1950 to 1953)
Who: countries that were involved were North Korea and South Korea.
What: North Korea army invaded South Korea but due to the Soviet Union, it ordered North Korea to withdraw. So it called an American General Douglas Mac Arthur was sent to command the UN troops and head to Korea
Where: it happened in Korea when both North and South were at War
When: it happened in 1950 during the cold war
Why: it happened because North Korea and South Korea are meant to be enemies and hate each other based of -
The Suez Crisis
Who: President Nasser was involved by the fact that he wanted to take our the Suez Canal from the control of French and British
What: what happened was that that this action greatly alerted Israel, France and Britain, So all three decided to launch a huge attack on Egypt since President Nasser is from Egypt. Soviet Union threatened all three countries by saying they will send missiles to help Egypt. And so the United States warned the Soviet Union that If they interfere than us will step in. An -
The Quiet Revelotion (month unknown)
Who: Rene Levesque, minister of natural resources and Lesage’s new government who makes two new main things for Québec.
What: what happened was that basically Lesage’s government wanted to do 2 main things for Québec, 1. improving economic and social standards of people of Québec, 2. winning greater
recognition for all French speaking people and give them greater control over their futures. So the government took control of the hydroelectric companies, this would give Quebeckers more of a say -
Cuban Crisis
Who: John F Kennedy was involved in attacking Cuba and trying to assassinate Fidel Castro but failed in error several times.
What: John F Kennedy attacked Cuba in 1961, sent more than 1000 CIA Cuban exiles to try to top cubes country and try to invade.
Where: It took place throughout Cuba as Kennedy failed his invasion on Cuba.
When: this occurred in 1961 at spring in Cuba.
Why: It happened for a reason and that was because John F Kennedy thought he would outrank Cuba getting carried away he -
Musa River
who: Musa river located in india got flooded and my grandfather and grandmother went upstairs to be safe.
what: when the flood arrived my great great grandfather packed his things and went to the roof.
where: Happened in india, Hydrabad
when: 1963, sept, 15 lasted 24 hrs
why: musa river was overflooing with heat and radiation.
Why is it a defining moment: many people were homeless, due to distruction others valubles all gone -
The October Crisis
Who a lot of people are involved in this Crisis, like the FLQ a group that held Cross and threatened the government by giving the government 48 hours to reply.
What allot happened in the October crisis starting with Labor minister Pierre Laporte who was playing football with his son but then a car comes by with 4 men holding machine cars taking Laporte at the back and driving away. People of FLQ demand release of 23 prisoners and demand a travel to Cuba or Algeria. Overall the FLQ were bad in -
Bill 22 Quebec (unknown month)
Who Québec made this act to ensure only French and English.
What A rule was made where basically children must pass a test to ensure they know English, only if they do so they will be able to go to English schools. All others much go to French schools
Where This rule generated in Quebec when new immigrants were arriving and population was shifting.
When happened in 1974 at the continuation of the language crisis.
Why happened because Quebec wanted lots of support on French since it was less popu -
Immigration to Saudi arabia
Who: My moms cousins Father decided to immigrate to Saudi Arabia during the Cold war still continuing in Canada
what: he was low on income in India and needed more money, because his family at the time was really poor.
where:Happened during Hydrabad when he decided to make his decison
when: Happened during 1975 when india had a low value, pay was less and work was done alot.
why: because first of all he had 2 sons and 4 daughters so the salary was low.
why was a it a defining moment -
Bill 101(unknown month)
Who Part Quebecois, a group passed a new Bill known as Bill 101 which has a huge effect and new way of control in Québec.
What basically a new law was passed that, French must be used in government, business and courts. Quebecers were now given access to use French at work and on the job. Those that could speak in English are excluded if they were in jobs. Immigrants could not send their child to English educated schools it must be French if wanted education. -
The Immigration Act 1978
Who Canada made major changes to the immigration policy as allot more people were coming in than before.
What happened was that Canada changed the rules and is allowing different people from different countries to enter in its self. However there’s a catch you had to be fluent in English or French, had to be highly educated and finally had to have high marketable skills. Canada wanted to accomplish major goals like for instance, attract people who want to promote domestic and international needs -
India Independence (unknown month)
who: Britain controlled India as one of its countries for slaveryduring WW2 to Cold war.
what: india declared being alone after many years of slavery
where: was obviously in india during the slavery times
when: 1882, it actually lasted for quite longer based on Britains control.
why: India vot tired of being Britains puppy and decided to move on.
why is it a defining moment: important because india got peace after so many years , and finally is a whole country.
